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1954 Disneyland
August 13--Excavation of the Disneyland site begins
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| Attractions Opened: | 1 |
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| Deaths: | 0 |
| Injuries: | 0 |
Events
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January
Key Disney Staff members begin touring American amusement parks, learning what not to do.
Milt Albright promoted to manager of accounting at Disneyland
Walt agrees to produce a regular television show for ABC in return for funding.
July
July 16--More than 180 acres of south Anaheim orange groves begin their transformation into the "Happiest Place on Earth." To finance Disneyland, Walt Disney sells a vacation home and borrows against his life insurance.
August
August 13--Excavation of the Disneyland site begins
October
October 27--"The Disneyland Story" airs (first episode of Disneyland television show)
Advertising
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Articles
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Disneyland, TV Show
Dateline: 11/2/1954
Dateline: 11/2/1954
Status: Archive
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The ABC-TV show and Disneyland would be unbelievable except for the imaginative genius of their creator, who says: "In Disneyland, clocks and watches will lose all meaning, for there is no present. There are only yesterday, tomorrow and the timeless
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Here's Your First View Of Disneyland
Dateline: 11/2/1954
Dateline: 11/2/1954
Status: Archive
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Walt Disney's imagination is running wild again. At Anaheim, Calif., 25 miles from Los Angeles, bulldozers are piling up miniature mountains for a new product of Walt Disney's fertile imagination - a fabulous playground called Disneyland. At
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Fairyland Of Yesterday And Tomorrow
Dateline: 12/1/1954
Dateline: 12/1/1954
Status: Archive
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Forty passengers at a time will get a realistic impression of space travel in a huge moon rocket being built near Los Angeles as part of Walt Disney's $9,000,000 Disneyland recreation park.
Strapped to their seats, the passengers will thrill at
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Attraction Openings And Closings
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Circle D Corral
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Deaths And Injuries
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Parade Openings And Closings
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Photo Gallery Onstage
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Photo Gallery Backstage
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Walt Disney With Stage Coach Backstage
Scaffolding For Original Construction
Scaffolding For Original Construction
Scaffolding For Original Construction
Video Gallery
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Construction Of The Mark Twain
(2:50 1954)
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